Episode 3 Mastermind

The first contender in the black chair tonight is Gill Taylor.

She's a retired project manager from Yorkshire

and her specialist subject is the honeybee.

Next, Jim Goldstraw, a teacher from Solihull.

He's answering questions on the Royal Navy in the Second World War.

Gareth John is a lighting engineer from Llangollen in north Wales.

His specialist subject, Mark E Smith and The Fall.

And Ed Kent, a civil servant from Bristol

on John le Carre's Quest For Karla trilogy.

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Hello, and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

Four more contenders all set to take to the stage tonight.

As usual, they will face two minutes on their specialist subject,

two and a half minutes on general knowledge.

The winner, of course, goes through to the next round and will be

on course to become the next Mastermind champion.

So let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

Honeybees in two minutes, starting now.

The cell of a bee's honeycomb

is constructed in what distinctive geometric shape?

-Hexagonal.

-What term derived from the Latin for "little basket"

is used for the hair fringe structure on the hind leg

of a worker honeybee for carrying pollen?

-Corbicula.

-What astronomical name is widely given to the shifting

swarm-like formations of male bees in flight, formed as they

pursue the queen before mating?

-Comet tail.

-Yes, drone comets.

What item of beekeeping equipment used to subdue

the bees in a hive typically incorporates a firebox and bellows?

-Smoker.

-What name is given to the crescent-shaped dance

performed by worker bees during foraging that represent

an intermediate phase between the round dance and the waggle dance?

-Pass.

-To what genus does the honeybee belong?

It includes the widely domesticated species mellifera.

-Apis.

-For what purpose does a beekeeper use a Baldock or a crown of thorns cage?

To catch the queen.

What is the common name of the British climbing plant Hedera helix

which provides the honeybee with a nectar source late in the year?

-Ivy.

-What is the name of the protein that consists of 26 amino acids

and is a principal constituent of the honeybee's venom?

-Pass.

-What is the common name of the disease caused by the fungus Ascosphaera apis

that results in a bee larva being transformed into a mummy of fungal spores?

-Sac brood.

-No, chalkbrood.

Which deadly parasitic mite of bees, now endemic in the UK,

includes the common destructor species?

-Varroa.

-The honeybee Apis mellifera ligustica, a resident in the UK,

originates from which European country?

-Italy.

-In the early 1850s, which American clergyman and beekeeper identified

the bee space within a hive that enabled him to develop movable frame beekeeping?

Langstroth.

The black honeybee Apis mellifera mellifera

has been legally protected on the Hebridean island

of Oronsay and which neighbouring island?

-Pass.

-What sticky substance also called bee glue or bee gum

is collected by bees from tree and plant resins and used for

constructing and sealing their hives?

-Propolis.

-What name shared with the gland in the worker bee's abdomen

is given to the pheromone that includes nerol and geraniol

used for orientation, marking and guidance?

-BEEP

-Nasonov.

-Nasonov is correct.

Yes, absolutely. You had three passes.

Colonsay is the neighbouring island of Oronsay.

Melittin is the name of that protein consisting of all those amino acids.

You knew it, didn't you? And sickle dance is...

-Oh, yes.

-..the name given to the crescent-shaped dance performed by

worker bees. All of which you knew, but it's the black chair.

-However, Gill, you have 12 points.

-Thank you.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

The Navy. In two minutes.

What operational name was given to the naval part of Operation Overlord,

the D-Day landings in Normandy?

-Neptune.

-Which Vice Admiral was in charge of the organisation of

Operation Dynamo, the seaborne evacuation from Dunkirk?

Bertram Ramsay.

What type of ships were HMS Illustrious and HMS Implacable,

which first saw action during the Second World War?

-Aircraft carriers.

-What class of midget submarines was used

in the final approach to the Tirpitz

in northern Norway in September, 1943?

The X-craft.

Who was the First Sea Lord who give the disastrous order

to the Arctic convoy PQ 17 to scatter in 1942?

Dudley Pound.

Which city's docks and shipyards were attacked by HMS Malaya

as part of Operation Grog on 9th February, 1941?

Trincomalee.

Genoa. HMS Royal Oak was sunk with the loss of more than 800 lives

in October 1939 in which Royal Navy base?

-Scapa Flow.

-How many men out of a total complement of more than 1,400

survived when HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck?

-Three.

-Three days after the loss of HMS Hood,

British ships attacked the Bismarck during a pursuit in the Atlantic.

Which cruiser was given the final order to torpedo and sink it?

Dorsetshire.

What was the name of the operation to carry supplies to Malta in August, 1942?

Only five of the 14 original merchant ships reached the island.

-Pedestal.

-Which British battle cruiser was sunk by Japanese aircraft

together with HMS Prince of Wales in December 1941?

-The Repulse.

-Which British Naval Commander in the Mediterranean campaign

was known by his initials ABC?

-Andrew Cunningham.

-Which town in northern Norway

gave its name to two sea raids in April, 1940, in the Ofotfjord

where the Royal Navy annihilated a flotilla of German destroyers?

-Narvik.

-What was the name of the commander of the submarine HMS Upholder

who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in sinking the Conte Rosso?

-Malcolm Wanklyn.

-Which German battle cruiser was sunk by the Royal Navy

in an action known as the Battle of the North Cape on Boxing Day, 1943,

while it was attacking an Arctic convoy en route to Russia?

-BEEP

-The Scharnhorst.

The Scharnhorst is correct.

No passes. You got them all right. You have scored, Jim, 14 points.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

In two minutes, starting now.

The English post-punk band The Fall formed in Manchester in 1976. The group took their name

from the title of a novel by which Nobel Prize-winning author?

-Albert Camus.

-What was the title of the band's first UK top 30 single?

It had previously been a top ten hit for R Dean Taylor.

There's A Ghost In My House.

The band were part of a collective based at North West Arts

and played their first gig there in 1977. What was the collective called?

The Manchester Musicians Collective.

Which song was released on the Bingo-Master's Break-Out

EP in August '78 and contains the lines,

"There is no hesitation, This is your situation.

"Continue a blank generation"?

-Repetition.

-The Fall's first album, Live At The Witch Trials,

was released in 1979 and had been recorded in just two days.

Who was the producer?

-Pass.

-What is the name of the American-born guitarist and vocalist who joined the band

in 1983 and married Mark E Smith?

-Brix Smith.

-What is the title of the band's 1981 10-inch mini album

that contains only six tracks, including Prole Art Threat?

-Slates.

-Which guitarist and founding member of the band returned to the group in 1990

to record the Extricate album that reached the UK top 40?

-Martin Brammer.

-Popcorn Double Feature,

which appears on the 1990 album Extricate is a cover of a song recorded

by one of Mark E Smith's favourite Merseybeat bands. What were they called?

-The Searchers.

-2002, Mark E Smith's third wife joined the band

as a keyboard player. What's her name?

-Eleni Poulou.

-What is the title of the 2005 BBC documentary

profiling The Fall? It includes footage of the band recording their final session

for the John Peel Show.

The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall.

Of Mark E Smith. What is the title of the band's 1988 album that was the soundtrack

to a Michael Clarke ballet?

-I Am Curious Orange.

-Which Sister Sledge song did The Fall cover

on their '93 album The Infotainment Scam?

-Lost In Music.

-At which venue did Mark E Smith and The Fall

present the alternative play Hey! Luciani?

-Sadler's Wells.

-Riverside Studios.

What was the title of the band's first single

to be released by Rough Trade in 1980?

-Totally Wild.

-No. How I Wrote Elastic Man.

What was the name of the keyboard player in The Fall's original line-up?

BEEP She was also Mark E Smith's girlfriend at the time.

-Una Baines.

-Is correct.

One pass, Gareth.

The producer of that first album, Live At The Witch Trials,

-was Bob Sargeant.

-Ah.

-But you have scored 12 points.

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And our final contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

Chosen subject?

In two minutes, starting now.

In John le Carre's Quest For Karla trilogy, the British secret intelligence

service is referred to as the Circus, from the name of the road junction in London

where its fictional headquarters are based. Which junction?

-Charing Cross Road.

-Cambridge Circus. In Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

what's the name of the Secret Service agent and possible Soviet spy

whom Control designated as Soldier?

-Roy Bland.

-When Jerry Westerby first meets Charlie Marshall in Cambodia he gives Marshall 300

and a copy of which novel by Voltaire?

-Candide.

-In the Secret Service jargon used by La Carre,

what name is given to the people who carry out electronic sweeping

to find bugs and other hidden listening devices?

-Snoopers.

-Ferrets. At the beginning of Smiley's People, George Smiley

is in the London library in St James's Square writing a monograph

on which German baroque poet?

-Grimmelshausen?

-Opitz.

Under what name was Karla operating when he was interrogated by Smiley

in a Delhi prison?

-Gerstmann.

-In Smiley's People, at which seedy nightclub in Hamburg does George Smiley meet

Claus Kretzschmar to get information on the whereabouts of his associate, Otto Leipzig?

-The Blue Diamond.

-What name did Vladimir Miller use for Karla cos anybody who comes too close

to him has a way of falling asleep?

-The Sandman.

-Smiley assumes the name Professor Lachmann when he visits Karla's daughter

Tatiana in a psychiatric clinic.

What subject does he claim to be professor of?

-Philology.

-What is the nickname of the Circus' training school

at Sarratt in Hertfordshire?

-The Nursery.

-Before he was murdered on Hampstead Heath,

Vladimir Miller managed to hide a film negative in what item that he discarded?

-Cigarette packet.

-In Smiley's People, at which institution

near the British Museum does George Smiley meet the Estonian Mikhel?

-The Reading Room.

-The Free Baltic Library. At the end of Smiley's People,

in which city does the Moscow spy master Karla surrender

to Smiley and the British Secret Service?

-Berlin.

-At Oxford University in the 1930s, Bill Haydon

was a member of the Christ Church College Club, that is described as having

an unashamedly conservative political complexion. Which club?

-The Optimates.

-In Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Alleline

has got access to Soviet intelligence material codenamed

Witchcraft. What is the codename of the source who is supplying it?

-BEEP

-Merlin.

-Merlin is correct.

No passes, Ed. You have scored 11 points.

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So, that was a close round.

Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, 11 points, Ed Kent.

In joint second place, 12 points apiece, Gill Taylor and Gareth John.

First place, 14 points,

Jim Goldstraw.

So, it's the general knowledge round now.

That'll sort out the frontrunners from the also-rans.

If their scores are tied at the end of this round then the number

of passes will be taken into account and the person with the fewer passes

will be the winner. And if they can't be separated on passes

as well, there will have to be a tie-breaker. And remember,

the six highest scoring runners-up will also be able to claim

a place in the semifinals. So, plenty to play for.

Let's get on with it and ask Ed to join us again, please.

And...

you start this round with 11 points so let's see how you can do

with the general knowledge round.

You get two and a half minutes for this one. So, here we go.

Which Californian city has been linked to Marin County

by the Golden Gate Bridge since 1937?

-San Francisco.

-What is Wendy's surname in JM Barrie's play Peter Pan?

-Darling.

-Which river was known to the ancient Egyptians as the Aur, meaning black,

a reference to the colour of the sediment carried by it when it was in flow?

-The Nile.

-What name is given to a word formed by the initial

letters of other words, such as laser?

-Acronym.

-The popular walk to the summit of Cat Bells is in which English national park?

-Peak District.

-Lake District.

Since 1974, what name has been commonly used for a newly elected parliament

in which no party has an overall majority?

The party that ends up in power is then unable to pass laws

without the support of other parties.

-Hung parliament.

-Which former footballer's film credits

include Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels,

X-Men: The Last Stand and Mean Machine?

-Vinnie Jones.

-Which American World Chess Champion

invented and promoted the game of Chess960, where the starting positions

of the major pieces are randomised over 960 possible combinations?

-Bobby Fischer.

-The main aims of a medieval science were to turn base metals

into gold and to discover a cure for disease and a way of extending life.

What was the science called?

-Alchemy.

-In the Book of Genesis,

who interpreted the Pharaoh's dreams as meaning there would be seven years

of plenty followed by seven years of famine?

-Moses.

-Joseph. Which folk opera, that was first performed in 1935, features the songs

I Got Plenty O' Nothing and It Ain't Necessarily So?

-Show Boat?

-Porgy And Bess.

What phonetic form of the French for "help me"

is an internationally recognised distress signal?

-Mayday.

-In September, 2000, Paul Oakenfold and Andy Gray, under the name Elementfour,

had a top five UK single with the theme tune to which reality television show?

-Big Brother.

-Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup in 1953 backed by the CIA and MI6.

Of which country was he Prime Minister?

-Iran.

-What name is given to the blend of star anise, cloves, cinnamon,

fennel seed and Sichuan peppercorns that is widely used in Chinese cooking?

-Pass.

-In the George Orwell novel 1984, in which ministry

does Winston Smith work as a records clerk before he is caught

having an affair with Julia and sent to the Ministry of Love?

-The Ministry of Truth.

-Which film musical starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John is set

at Rydell High School in the 1950s?

-Grease.

-What word for a child or animal that has not been weaned is also applied

to a young pig roasted on a spit?

-Suckling.

-Which scientific instrument gets its name

from the Greek for "small" and "to look at"?

-Stethoscope?

-Microscope.

What is the shortest of the races classed as middle-distance in athletics?

It's normally run over two laps of the track at international meetings.

-BEEP

-5,000 metres.

It's the 800 metres. You had one pass,

all those spices widely used in Chinese cooking

are known as five-spice.

Just that one pass, Ed, but you piled on the points in that round.

You now have a total of 25.

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And Gill to join us again, if she would, please.

And you start out with 12 points.

And, as you have just seen, 25 is now the score to beat.

You have two and a half minutes in which to try to do it. Here we go.

The bathroom fixture that is called a faucet in America

is known by what name in this country?

-Tap.

-Whose chart-topping albums include Sing When You're Winning,

Escapology and Swing When You're Winning?

-Robbie Williams.

-Which British political TV drama starring Ian Richardson has been adapted

in an American version with Kevin Spacey playing Francis J Underwood

who becomes President of the United States?

-Pass.

-In cookery, what name is given to the internal edible parts of domestic fowl

and game birds?

-Lights?

-Giblets. Which prize, awarded annually since 1993,

for the best new collection of poetry published in the UK and Ireland is named after

an Anglo-American poet and playwright?

The 2015 prize was awarded to Sarah Howe for Loop Of Jade.

-The Eliot Prize?

-TS Eliot Prize, yes. What name is given to

the passenger side of a vehicle that is closest to the kerb in normal driving conditions?

-The near side.

-Which historic city in Belgium, a popular tourist destination,

is home to the Groeningemuseum Museum,

which houses an important collection of pre-Renaissance Flemish primitive works?

-Bruges.

-Which chemical element takes its name from the Greek for violet,

the colour of its vapour?

-Pass.

-In 2001, who became the first person to have a British airport

named after him when Liverpool Speke Airport was rebranded?

-John Lennon.

-Which natural wonder in Africa has a local name that translates as

"the smoke that thunders," a reference to its mighty roar

and characteristic surround of mist?

-The Victoria Falls.

-What is the medical term for lockjaw,

an acute infectious disease of humans and other animals?

-Tetanus.

-What 2016 Coen brothers film that stars Josh Brolin, Scarlett Johansson

and George Clooney is about a Hollywood fixer

who investigates the disappearance of a film star?

-Hail, Caesar!

-In what annual sporting event are the male competitors reserve crews

known as Isis and Goldie?

-The Oxford-Cambridge boat race.

-Which Roman deity, the second in importance only to Jupiter,

is regarded as the Roman equivalent of Aries, the Greek god of war?

-Mars.

-Which character meets three men on the way to a marriage feast

and detains one of them to relate his story in a poem published in 1798?

-Pass.

-Which island off the south coast of England

was known to the Romans as Vectis?

-The Isle of Wight.

-In the UK, a pearl wedding traditionally celebrates

how many years of marriage?

-25.

-30. In which field event did the East German athlete Jurgen Schult

set a world record in June, 1986, with a throw of over 74 metres,

that still stood at the start of the 2016 season?

-Discus.

-Which garden suburb south of Birmingham was founded

when the Quaker Cadbury brothers moved their chocolate factory there in 1879?

-Bournville.

-What colour was the skin of John Major's puppet

in the TV programme Spitting Image?

-Grey.

-Which American writer published her first novel,

BEEP Songs Of The Humpback Whale, in 1992?

Her other novels include My Sister's Keeper and Leaving Time.

I've no idea.

Well, I'll tell you, cos you're out of time anyway.

-Jodi Picoult.

-Oh, right.

And you had three other passes.

The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

was the character who met three men on the way to a marriage.

Iodine was the chemical that takes its name from the Greek for violet.

And House Of Cards was Kevin Spacey.

-You knew that, didn't you?

-Mm.

-Yeah.

-Anyway, here's the good news, you have 27 points.

-Oh!

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And now Gareth again, please.

And you also start this round with 12 points, Gareth.

But the score to beat has gone up to 27, as you have just heard.

Here we go. General knowledge, two and a half minutes, starting now.

Which fictional diarist, whose first entry is dated 1st January, 1981,

was created by the writer Sue Townsend?

-Adrian Mole.

-What is the name of the outspoken former Wimbledon champion who was

a long-time presenter of Radio 5's Wimbledon phone-in 606?

-John McEnroe.

-What general name is used for a small horse

normally below 14.2 hands in height?

-A foal.

-A pony.

Which is the largest and most southerly of the Channel Isles?

-Sark.

-Jersey.

Regnum Defende, meaning defend the realm,

is the motto of the UK's domestic counterintelligence agency,

the security service, based at Thames House on Millbank.

By what name is the agency more commonly known?

-MI5.

-How many strings does an instrument in the violin family,

such as violin, cello or viola, typically have?

-Four.

-What city, the centre of the Indian film-making industry,

is sometimes known as Bollywood?

-Bombay.

-Or Mumbai, yes.

Ash Wednesday marks the start of which penitential period,

whose name is an obsolete word for the season of spring?

-Lent.

-Which Anglo-Scottish duo's top ten albums during the '80s

included Be Yourself Tonight, Revenge and Savage?

-Robson and Jerome?

-Eurythmics.

Which artist painted Piccadilly Gardens in 1954?

The picture features his characteristic stick-like figures.

-Lowry.

-The name of what variety of pasta

normally served stuffed and baked with a sauce

literally means large tubes?

-Penne.

-Cannelloni. What name for a brightly coloured handkerchief often worn

tied around the head or neck comes from a Hindi term for a way of tie-dyeing cloth?

-Bandana.

-In 1898, Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about the hanging of a murderer

who was convicted for killing his wife in a prison

where Wilde spent most of a two-year sentence. Which prison?

-Reading.

-Who was one of the principal leaders and theoreticians of

the Russian Revolution and the Soviet government until he fell out with Stalin,

who had him exiled in 1929 and later murdered?

-Leon Trotsky.

-Which Australian state has the largest population,

although it is the second smallest in area of the mainland states?

-Canberra Territory.

-New South Wales.

Which actor who co-starred in the sitcom Friends joined Top Gear

as co-presenter with Chris Evans?

-Pass.

-What breed of dog that was developed in Germany takes its name from

its distinctive moustachioed muzzle?

-Rottweiler.

-Schnauzer.

Nick Hornby's autobiographical book Fever Pitch is about the author's love of football,

and in particular his devotion to which London football club?

-Arsenal.

-Which 1980s TV series focused on the female police

inspectors Jean Darblay and Kate Longton and was set

in the Lancashire town of Hartley?

-Juliet Bravo.

-Which dough-like material that's a mixture of powdered chalk

and linseed oil and is used in DIY takes its name from the French for "pot full."

-BEEP

-Plaster of Paris?

-Putty.

-Ah!

-Yeah, I know. One pass,

-it was Matt LeBlanc who is joining Chris Evans.

-Of course it was.

Yeah, I know. Didn't quite get there, Gareth, 24 points.

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And, finally, Jim again, please.

And you start out with 14,

and the score to beat is still 27

for you to get through to the next round. So, here we go,

two and a half minutes.

Honeydew is a juicy, sweet, yellow-skinned variety of which fruit?

-Melon.

-What is the nickname of the bass guitarist Robert Bell,

whose UK top ten single hits with the gang include Ladies Night,

Celebration and Get Down On It?

-Adam Kent.

-Kool.

For which members of the crow family is an unkindness the collective noun?

-Lark.

-Ravens.

Which Elizabethan adventurer wrote works that include The History Of The World,

The Last Fight, The Revenge and The Discovery Of Guiana?

-Raleigh.

-What is the least number of darts required to complete a game of 301?

-Six.

-What name is given to the old method of sending messages using two flags

held by a signal man?

-Semaphore.

-In which coastal village in Suffolk are there

two nuclear power stations designated A and B?

The construction of a third power station, designated C,

is under consideration.

-Sizewell.

-What method of engraving in which a metal plate

is pricked with small holes that hold ink takes its name

from the Italian for half tone?

-Pass.

-What title did Edward VIII take in March 1937,

after he had abdicated the throne three months earlier?

-The Duke of Windsor.

-The cheese manchego, castellano

and zamorano are made in what country?

-Italy.

-Spain. In 1936, a wren replaced the depiction of Britannia

on the reverse side of a coin that was worth a quarter of an old penny.

Which coin?

-Halfpenny.

-Farthing. Which plant whose name comes from the Greek for wind

is also known as the wind flower, possibly because its flower hangs

in such a way that it trembles in the slightest breeze?

-Pass.

-What major international award has been won by the American Presidents

Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson,

Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama?

-Nobel Peace Prize.

-What is the title of the first of Richard Gordon's Doctor books?

It's also the title of the first of the films based on those books.

-Doctor In The House.

-Which cantankerous character was played by the

Scottish actor Richard Wilson in the TV comedy series One Foot In The Grave?

-Victor Meldrew.

-Which charitable organisation was founded in 1919

by Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton, with the aim of working for

the welfare of children in disaster areas?

-Oxfam.

-Save The Children. In January 2016,

which Canadian singer became the first artist to fill the top three spots

in the UK singles charts?

-Alanis Morissette.

-Justin Bieber.

What two initials do the Irish equivalent of British MPs

have after their name?

-Pass.

-The Palace of Knossos is on which Greek island,

the centre of the Minoan civilisation?

-Crete.

-Who stars as the transgender pioneer Lili Elbe

in the 2015 picture The Danish Girl?

-BEEP

-Um...

Go on, take a guess, you're out of time.

HE MUTTERS

I'll put you out of your misery.

-I can't remember his name.

-Eddie Redmayne.

-Eddie Redmayne.

Yeah, you knew that, didn't you?

He of the lips. Right, the other passes -

those initials the Irish equivalent of British MPs have

-after their name - TD.

-TD.

-Yeah.

The anemone is that flower whose flowers blow in the breeze.

And mezzotint is that engraving method.

Jim, a total of 24 points.

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Well, she managed to hold them all off.

Let's have a look at all the scores.

In joint third place, 24 points apiece,

Jim Goldstraw and Gareth John.

Second place, 25 points, Ed Kent.

First place, 27 points, Gill Taylor.

Which means, of course, that Gill is tonight's winner

and she goes through to the semifinals.

Congratulations to her, commiserations to Ed, but,

with 25 points in the bag, it is entirely possible

that we shall see him again in the semifinal.

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